Tag: Chinese Cinema
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Love Under Capitalism in Comrades, Almost a Love Story
“It was winter and cold and we were two lonely people keeping each other warm.” One of the great Hong Kong romances, director Peter Chan doesn’t consider his own Comrades, Almost a Love Story (1996) to be a romantic film. Here’s his response to a South China Morning Post 2021 question asking him to describe…
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The Wandering Earth 2 Surpasses First
The world was a very different place when The Wandering Earth came out in 2019, and The Wandering Earth 2 meets our changed world with a completely reimagined sequel, or rather prequel. Based on Liu Cixin’s short story of the same name, the first was a high-octane space disaster film, much like Geostorm (2017) or Moonfall (2022); the second is an episodic series…
The Transcendent Cinema 